Overview of spam from Hkt.net

15 Feb 2006

Note: Automated spam monitoring stopped several years ago. These web pages are maintained for historical reasons. Some may be updated from time to time as news about the individual sites becomes available.

No spam today

Overview of history

	posts	total	BI
Total spam since 30 Apr 1997	283	1812	711.19
Peak spam on 5 May 1997	179	1188	456.44
Peak daily spam on 5 May 1997	44	297	114.11	(4-day average)
Average daily spam	41.2	270.0	104.52

full history also available

General information about Hkt.net

I am told that Netvigator and Hkt are different divisions of the Hong Kong Telecom group. Connectivity is through Asiaonline which may be innocent.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history
Netnews Feeds

These are likely the same spammers who have also worked from IBM, HKStar and AsiaOnline.

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Hkt as

Hong Kong Telecom (HKT2-DOM)
   29/F, Hongkong Telecom Tower, 979 King's
   Road, Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay Hong Kong,
   Hong Kong, - -
   HK

   Domain Name: HKT.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Yeung, William  (WY28) domain@HKT.NET
      (852) 2883 6868 (FAX) (852) 2962 5005
   Billing Contact:
      Yeung, William  (WY28)  domain@HKT.NET
      (852) 2883 6868 (FAX) (852) 2962 5005

Site history

March 1999: As of March, 1999, cais.net has terminated their netnews connectivity to HKT. UUNet continues to provid service.
17 June 1999: UDP has been announced against HKT, scheduled to begin 24 June. See netnews thread UDP Notice: HKT.NET

NetNews Feeds

Hkt receives netnews feeds from the following sites that I know of:

UUNet

These sites have been added to the reporting list for Hkt to keep them aware of the problem, and to suggest that they terminate their netnews feed with Hkt until such time that Hkt adopts an anti-spam policy and regains control of their servers.

To report spam, contact postmaster@hkt.net

A complete history may also be available.

General notes:

Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) was sampled. Only articles that hadn't been cancelled yet were counted. Actual spam may have been much greater.
Heuristics that detect single-posted articles are, by their very nature, somewhat shaky. Innocent articles may be tagged as spam because they share certain characteristics or keywords with actual spam. In particular, a posted spam complaint that includes the spam in its entirety will very often be identified as spam.
Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from Hkt.net.
The first entry in the history file is not used to compute peak or average spam counts, as this entry covers an unknown number of days. This may cause an apparent disreprency between spam totals and spam averages.

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